Apple has introduced a new StandBy mode in iOS 17 that converts your iPhone into a digital display that can show information from a distance. You can configure it to display the clock, photos, or widgets to get quick information.
But without the right set of Widgets, you'll just be wasting the opportunity. The same widgets that you use for your Home Screen won't work with StandBy unless they have been optimized for it. So, here's a list of some widgets that'll undoubtedly make a great addition to your iPhone screen in StandBy.
Best Productivity Widgets
While our phone is mostly responsible for pulling us in different directions, always distracting us, it'd be great to have it help with our productivity for a change, wouldn't it? With these widgets at your fingertips, or rather, on your StandBy screen, you can expect your productivity to shoot through the roof!
Cheatsheet — Notes Widget
Cheatsheet is for the little things you never remember: hotel rooms, license plates, luggage combination, ID numbers. Write them down in Cheatsheet and then refer to them anytime in a Widget or paste them anywhere with the Custom Keyboard. No more fumbling to unlock your phone and find your notes a…
Timery for Toggl
Enhance your Toggl time-tracking experience with Timery! Start your most-used timers with one click. Edit your recent time entries easily. See reports of your time tracked. With its apps, Shortcuts actions, and widgets, Timery brings you easy time tracking with Toggl. Timery works on Mac, iPhone,…
AppBlock – Block Apps & Sites
Scrolling all day? AppBlock will help you keep distractions away. With just a few taps, you can block apps on your phone. Blocked apps cannot be opened; even their notifications won’t bother you anymore. And you can block any websites or phrases in Safari too! QUICK BLOCK
The simplest way to block…
The simplest way to block…
Microsoft Outlook
Outlook lets you bring all of your email accounts and calendars in one convenient spot. Whether it’s staying on top of your inbox or scheduling the next big thing, we make it easy to be your most productive, organised and connected self. Here’s what you’ll love about Outlook for iOS: – Focus on t…
Things 3
Get things done! The award-winning Things app helps you plan your day, manage your projects, and make real progress toward your goals. Best of all, it’s easy to use. Within the hour, you’ll have everything off your mind and neatly organized—from routine tasks to your biggest life goals—and you can…
Structured – Daily Planner
Sometimes we just need to plan our days to make better use of the hours. Sometimes we just need our days to be more … Structured. Structured is an app for people who need structure to their life or just like to know what’s up next. Calendars and to-do lists can be fine, but sometimes we just nee…
Focus To-Do: Focus Timer&Tasks
Focus To-Do combines Pomodoro Timer with Task Management, it is a science-based app that will motivate you to stay focused and get things done. It brings Pomodoro Technique and To Do List into one place, you can capture and organize tasks into your todo lists, start focus timer and focus on work…
Attentive – Digital Wellbeing
Successfully reduce mindless screen time today! Attentive is your friendly guide to growing healthy smartphone habits. With science-backed tips and techniques, learn how to spend less time on your phone and avoid digital distractions, so that your phone truly serves you, your productivity, health a…
Focus – Productivity Timer
Meet Focus: the best time manager for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Focus is the most elegant and professional solution to get more work done. Stay focused by working in highly efficient sessions, tackling one task at a time. “[…] a tool that can genuinely make people more productive” – MacSt…
Best Health & Fitness Widgets
Whether you want to track your sleep, calories, workouts, or meditation, there's a widget for everything. Without even needing to open the app, you can keep track of your health & fitness or get an extra hand with sleep with these widgets on your StandBy screen.
Sleep Tracker – Rise
Become a better sleeper thanks to 100 years of sleep science. Teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, MLS as well as many Fortune 500 companies trust Rise to help members achieve better sleep. FROM THE RISE COMMUNITY: *****
Chase M.
“Rise helped me understand how vital sleep truly is. In only a few weeks,…
Chase M.
“Rise helped me understand how vital sleep truly is. In only a few weeks,…
Peak: Fitness Widgets
Peak gives you the ability to make your own fitness dashboard, and always stay on top of it with a range of widgets. → Your Personal Fitness Dashboard
Build a custom dashboard tailored to your needs by picking and choosing the exact metrics you want, such as steps, workouts, activity rings, and mo…
Build a custom dashboard tailored to your needs by picking and choosing the exact metrics you want, such as steps, workouts, activity rings, and mo…
Calory: Nutrition, Diet Coach
SIMPLE, EASY & FAST CALORIE COUNTING Calory is your ultimate calorie counter and a quick way to count, track & tally your calories during the day. WHY COUNT CALORIES? Everyone has a personalized number of calories they should eat every day based on factors including their weight, height, activit…
SmartGym: Gym & Home Workouts
- One of Apple’s favorite Apple Watch apps of 2018 and 2019!
– #1 Health & Fitness app in over 30 countries. “Best Apple Watch Apps for Health and Fitness” – Forbes
“Best health and fitness apps for Apple Watch” – iMore – Featured by Apple as *App of the Day* all around the world!
– Featured by A…
– #1 Health & Fitness app in over 30 countries. “Best Apple Watch Apps for Health and Fitness” – Forbes
“Best health and fitness apps for Apple Watch” – iMore – Featured by Apple as *App of the Day* all around the world!
– Featured by A…
Dark Noise: Sound Machine
Dark Noise is a simple yet powerful way to play ambient noise to help you sleep, focus, or relax. You can add to the 50 built in sounds by creating your own custom mixes for an endless variety of soundscapes. The innovative adaptive toolbar allows you to shrink your window to a super small Mini Pl…
Meditation Timer – Zenitizer
Take the next step on your meditation journey! Do you find guided meditations distracting? Does the narration get in the way of reaching a deeper meditative state? It’s time to upgrade your practice with Zenitizer: • Create routines that work for you
• Stay in the moment with interval bells
• Imm…
• Stay in the moment with interval bells
• Imm…
Pedometer++
Use your iPhone as a step counter. Pedometer++ lets you easily keep track of your daily and weekly step counts, without any impact on your battery life. You can view your progress each day from either the iPhone app, Widgets or Apple Watch app. For best results make sure that you keep your iPhone…
Best Customization Widgets
Who doesn't love some customization? And why should that customization elude your StandBy widgets? With these widgets on your StandBy, you can customize the widget screen to launch an app, call a contact, or have aesthetic-looking widgets, like a sun-dial, hourglass, etc., on your screen that can provide a variety of information.
Widgetsmith
Widgetsmith lets you personalize your home screen and lock screen like never before. It starts with a wide collection of highly customizable widgets, which range in function from photos, to date, to weather, to astronomy. Each can be adjusted precisely to best fit your desired function and appe…
iScreen – Widgets & Themes
iScreen – personalized homescreen with various Widgets & Themes & Wallpaper to make your phone screen stand out! iScreen provides trending iOS17 widgets on your lock and home screen, including creative StandBy widgets, interactive widgets and other 500+ widgets, making your phone more practical an…
Themify – Widget & Icon Themes
Explore our enormous collection of stylish widgets, icons, themes, and wallpapers for your phone’s Lock & Home Screens—you’re sure to find something that will make your inner aesthetic connoisseur happy! And it’s not about the look only; with our widgets, you keep the info you need handy and even h…
Launcher with Multiple Widgets
Launcher is the original app launching widget — and still the best! Launcher 5 allows you to customize your iPhone or iPad in ways you never could before. On iOS 16 Launcher brings its powerful widgets to your iPhone Lock Screen in addition to our existing Home Screen and Today View widgets. Top…
Widgy Widgets: Home/Lock/Watch
With Widgy, your home screen becomes YOUR home screen. You can make any kind of widget imaginable that perfectly matches the rest of your aesthetics. All the information you need can be easily surfaced through a widget that you designed. You don’t have to clutter your screen with the information yo…
Best Social Widgets
If you're a social animal who needs widgets that'll help you keep track of your social life, these widgets below have got you covered. Whether you need a little help to stay in touch with your countless friends and family, or you're a content creator who needs to keep track of your followers, you can turn to these widgets!
Amato: Stay in Touch
Stay in touch with friends & family. Add people most important to you, set reminders, and never forget to keep up with them. Amato was built for busy or forgetful people that want to stay in touch with their friends and family. It helps them keep up these relationships by improving the awareness…
Social Stats Widget
Social Stats Widget lets you view your social media following count directly on your home screen!
Social Stats Widget does not require any login details, you only need the username of the account you want to see the followers for. To add a widget:
1. Go into jiggle mode
2. Select the Social Stats…
Social Stats Widget does not require any login details, you only need the username of the account you want to see the followers for. To add a widget:
1. Go into jiggle mode
2. Select the Social Stats…
to Stories
Unlock a whole new experience of story making with all-in-one tool for creators, bloggers, content and news makers. PHOTOS
Publish photos to Instagram Stories directly from Photo Albums or Camera on your iPhone 10x faster! The simpliest workflow you can imagine. No more complicated searchings for…
Publish photos to Instagram Stories directly from Photo Albums or Camera on your iPhone 10x faster! The simpliest workflow you can imagine. No more complicated searchings for…
Best Information Widgets
StandBy is made to get information at a distance. So, what good would this screen be without some widgets that'll get you "information"? From news to sports scores and weather reports, flight trackers to podcasts, there's something for every type of information seeker on this list.
Overcast
A powerful, simple, award-winning podcast player. Featured by the App Store as Editor’s Choice and critically acclaimed by The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppAdvice, and more. No big company or VC funding here — Overcast is the only major podcast app written by a single person. The Verge: “The be…
LookUp Dictionary: Learn Daily
LookUp is an innovative English Dictionary app that combines a comprehensive English Dictionary with powerful vocabulary building tools. The app is perfect for English Learners and Word Enthusiasts who want to build their English Vocabulary. 1. Beautiful Word of the Day Illustrations ensure that y…
Flighty – Live Flight Tracker
“Truly phenomenal” NYTimes • Apple Design Award 2023 • Apple iPhone Editors’ Choice • Made for passengers first LIMITED TIME: Pro is free on your 1st flight. No credit card. No trial. ▶ INDUSTRY-FIRST FEATURES
– 25-hour where’s my plane
– private flight sharing with friends
– pilot-grade FAA inte…
– 25-hour where’s my plane
– private flight sharing with friends
– pilot-grade FAA inte…
Ruby – News & Reading
Ruby is a beautifully designed news app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. It’s built with a familiar design, so it’s simple and easy to use and understand. Ruby works great with your devices, and supports iCloud syncing for a seamless experience across all of them. The app itself has a lot o…
Sports Alerts
Clean, simple and FAST! Get live scores, stats, news and alerts for MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, CFL, soccer, tennis, golf, NCAA football & basketball and more. Install our Apple Watch app to get live scores for all games and frequently updated complications on your watch face. Watch post-game highlight…
CARROT Weather: Alerts & Radar
CARROT Weather is a crazy-powerful (and privacy-conscious) weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts. ** Winner of Apple’s App of the Year, Apple Design Award, and App Store Editors’ Choice. Featured by The New York Times, Good Morning America, CNN, Wired, & more! ** Overflowing W…
Weather&Rain Radar RainViewer
The RainViewer weather app gives you highly accurate forecasts directly from weather radars. Be prepared for rain, snow, storm, hurricane, or any other severe weather conditions. Monitor the weather radar map and check the forecast – all in one app. RainViewer gives you access to all the essentia…
Tide Guide: Charts & Tables
Never miss a tide, sunset, or beautiful day on the water. Tide Guide features global tide and marine weather conditions from the best data providers available. Designed for water lovers, beach-goers, boatsmen, surfers, and anyone who needs to know the tide. It’s beautiful, powerful, and provides ea…
Best Entertainment Widgets
If your mantra in life is, "Why so serious?" How can your StandBy screen stand to be a collection of just some serious widgets designed only to provide information or help you be more productive? So, here are some widgets that exist only to add some entertainment to your life!
Thwip: Soundboard
Your favorite sound effects, always one tap away.
Thwip is fun and polished soundboard app for iOS and watchOS *airhorn noise* — I know “Thwip” is hard to pronounce *womp womb*, but it supports iOS 17’s interactive Widgets and StandBy, the ability to import any audio file using the native File Pick…
Thwip is fun and polished soundboard app for iOS and watchOS *airhorn noise* — I know “Thwip” is hard to pronounce *womp womb*, but it supports iOS 17’s interactive Widgets and StandBy, the ability to import any audio file using the native File Pick…
Widgle
Play interactive puzzle games directly inside widgets on your home screen! Get a bite-size dose of gameplay whenever you need it, and a quick burst of fun to help get through a hectic day. Puzzles restart automatically every morning so you’ll start each day with a fresh puzzle to solve. CUSTOMIZE…
Snbd
Snbd is built to play any sound and customize sound boards. – Add sounds from .mp3 and .wav audio files
– Personalize sounds with colors, photos, emoji, and more
– Edit sound board appearances and layouts
– Trim sounds using audio waveforms
– Add Home Screen widgets
– Share sounds and sound boards…
– Personalize sounds with colors, photos, emoji, and more
– Edit sound board appearances and layouts
– Trim sounds using audio waveforms
– Add Home Screen widgets
– Share sounds and sound boards…
Dice Roll – Interactive Widget
Dice Roll lets you roll dice right on the Home Screen using the new Interactive Widgets. Customize the foreground and background color; the option to display a border, an animation, or text instead of the dice symbols; and also change the text font and font weight. The widgets are also available…
StandBy mode in iOS 17 is a great feature, but you need the right set of tools at your disposal to completely enjoy it. With Widgets from these great apps, StandBy will become an arsenal of information for you.
